Richard Nixon: Trending quotes (page 5)

“I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.”

Richard Nixon

As quoted in The Rehnquist Choice (2001) by John Dean; also in "Double Dipping at the Waffle House" by Dahlia Lithwick http://slate.msn.com/id/117140/ in Slate (11 October 2001)
2000s

Women , God

“To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President I must put the interests of America first. America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.”

Richard Nixon

Resignation Speech (8 August 1974)
1970s

Home , Problem , Time

“Let me say something before we get off the gay thing. I don't want my views misunderstood. I am the most tolerant person on that of anybody in this shop. They have a problem. They're born that way. You know that. That's all. I think they are. Anyway, my point is, though, when I say they're born that way, the tendency is there.”

Richard Nixon

1970s, They're Born That Way (1971)

Way , Problem , Thinking , Personality

“In any organization, the man at the top must bear the responsibility. That responsibility, therefore, belongs here, in this office. I accept it. And I pledge to you tonight, from this office, that I will do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice and that such abuses are purged from our political processes in the years to come, long after I have left this office.”

Richard Nixon

1970s, First Watergate Speech (1973)

Justice

“You don't want to know.”

Richard Nixon

Responding to Senator Howard Baker who asked him the question: "What do you know about the Kennedy assassination?" Quoted in Oral History Interview with Don Hewitt (8 October 2002)
2000s

“I seek the Presidency not be-cause it offers me a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do some-thing. ”

Richard Nixon

Chance

“Nixon: Within groups, there are geniuses. There are geniuses within black groups. There are more within Asian groups … This is knowledge that is better not to know.”

Richard Nixon

Fall of 1971, conversation with Harvard professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan http://nixontapeaudio.org/chron2/rmn_e010b.mp3; as qtd. in Tim Naftali, “Ronald Reagan’s Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/, The Atlantic, (Jul 30, 2019)
1970s, Tape transcripts (1971)

Knowledge

“Someone is saying we are contemplating sending aid to help the Pakistani refugees. I hope to hell we’re not.”

Richard Nixon

Source: FRUS, Nixon-Haig telcon, 29 April 1971, p. 99. quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.

Help , Hell , Hope

“I don't know how they reproduce!.. They are a scavenging people.”

Richard Nixon

1970s, Tape transcripts (1971)
Source: On Nov. 12, 1971, in the middle of a discussion about India-Pakistan tensions with Henry Kissinger and Secretary of State William P. Rogers, after Rogers mentioned reprimanding Indira Gandhi. Conversation 617-009 https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/617/conversation-617-009 of the White House Tapes. Quoted https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/opinion/nixon-racism-india.html The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism] (September, 3, 2020) by Gary J. Bass, [[The New York Times

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